Child poverty and anti-poverty policies in the UK

The anti-poverty policies succeeded in significantly reducing both child poverty and pensioner poverty –they did not reduce inequality or poverty for other groups. Policies included: 1) Increased spending on welfare benefits - £18 billion on families with children, £11 billion on pensioners –including increases in income support and child ...

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